From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sun Oct 8 13:27:41 2017 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 77481E354D2 for ; Sun, 8 Oct 2017 13:27:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from reichert@numachi.com) Received: from away.numachi.com (away.numachi.com [66.228.38.138]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0DC53675D0 for ; Sun, 8 Oct 2017 13:27:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from reichert@numachi.com) Received: (qmail 25237 invoked from network); 8 Oct 2017 13:20:58 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO meisai.numachi.com) (71.168.69.18) by away.numachi.com with SMTP; 8 Oct 2017 13:20:58 -0000 Received: (qmail 22768 invoked by uid 1001); 8 Oct 2017 13:20:58 -0000 Date: Sun, 8 Oct 2017 09:20:58 -0400 From: Brian Reichert To: Polytropon Cc: tech-lists , freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: console-only freebsd Message-ID: <20171008132058.GL32581@numachi.com> References: <20171007142019.GA19356@v007.zyxst.net> <20171007164308.e960781e.freebsd@edvax.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20171007164308.e960781e.freebsd@edvax.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 08 Oct 2017 13:27:41 -0000 On Sat, Oct 07, 2017 at 04:43:08PM +0200, Polytropon wrote: > On Sat, 7 Oct 2017 15:20:19 +0100, tech-lists wrote: > > what program or port would one use to view a gif or jpg file? > > Additional thought: > > With vt, default text modes are typically much bigger than > the traditional 80x25 of sc. With the "block graphics" and > maybe ASCII art + foreground / background color attributes, > maybe there is a viewer that converts the image into "text > with control characters" that can be displayed directy in > the vt text mode, without using any graphics? > > Just a stupid thought... ;-) I wonder if AA-lib is still viable; it was fun to play with back in the day: :) http://aa-project.sourceforge.net/index.html > -- > Polytropon > Magdeburg, Germany > Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 > Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" -- Brian Reichert BSD admin/developer at large